/home partition

[alex <radsky@ncia.net>]

I opted for a separate partition (hda2) for /home during the 
installation of Debian and it was duly formatted.  However, the 
partition doesn't seem to be as performing as a /home directory.
Instead, the regular /home directory under / seems to be doing
the job.

I read the data in hda2 but there's nothing there except
./ and ../.  When I read the regular /home directory (under /), all 
the usual /home data is present.

The partition (hda2) doen't appear in /etc/fstab --nothing there
shows that there is a separate partition for /home.

Is it necessary to edit /etc/fstab and manually enter a line
for hda2 to show that it is the /home directory?  If so, what should
this entry be?

What's a possible reason why the /home partition didn't 'take' 
during the installation process?  Is it always necessary to do some 
post-installation editing (/etc/fstab ??) after a partition is 
selected for a /directory?

alex